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We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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06-13-2002, 11:53 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Newtown Square, PA
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here is a really silly question
Do you like squirrels and what do you think their purpose is?
I am sitting here looking out my back window at the squirrels we seem to have inherited that are, once again, eating a hole in my trash can lids! [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img] I cannot tell you how many trash cans we have been through. Honestly, my trash isn't that good! What do they do besides eat trash?
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06-13-2002, 01:12 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: The land of the free and the Home of the Brave!
Posts: 2,694
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Re: here is a really silly question
Heh Heh...God also created the Hunter....with the ingenious plan.....to controll the deer population.
My problems revolve around the nighbors dog who always does his business in my back yard...I have asked nicley, I have down right complained, now I just put the piles on their porch.....When I am in a particularly nasty mood, I save a few days worth and present the whole lot to them at once, sometimes I even bless their news paper with it.
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06-13-2002, 01:38 PM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
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Re: here is a really silly question
Kruggie ROTFL! Glad I'm not your neighbour! (actually I'm a very responsible dog owner and always pick up his little "presents").
Since you have all the answers, Kruggie, please tell me what God's intent was with the mosquito? I may be able to put up with their bites if I know there is a purpose. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
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06-13-2002, 01:42 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Slate Belt, PA
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Re: here is a really silly question
God made mosquitoes so you could appreciate the days when you're not covered in skeeter bites and ready to peel off your own skin. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
Hey, Anastasia! There's a great trick we use for keeping away skunks that works on deer too. I get my DH all beered up and send him out into the yard to pee! Sounds gross, but it works great. The critters ar scared off by the male scent. (Like you couldn't smell a big, hairy, smelly hippie without him peeing in the flowerbed... [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] )
[ 06-13-2002, 01:57 PM: Message edited by: Beaner ]
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06-13-2002, 01:47 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: St. Louis
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Re: here is a really silly question
ROTFL. I'm not sure this topic was supposed to be that funny, but that is the way it turned out.
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now I just put the piles on their porch
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">I wish I had the guts to do that. We always end up with a really big pile right by the mailbox. [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img] We don't even have any dogs, and it really ticks me off.
As for the squirrels, we actually give them food in the winter. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] Aren't we nice? |
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06-13-2002, 01:51 PM
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Yeti Chaser
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Way down south
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Posts: 20,411
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Re: here is a really silly question
Mosquitos are terrible here! They are the pests I can't stand. And they love DS, the poor kid looks like a leper with the bites he scratches all over his legs!
Complaining about these pests and questioning their reason for living (lol) made me think of a story I heard about Corrie Ten Boom. She and her sister were in a Nazi concentration camp. Her sister prayed faithfully every day, and one day Corrie overheard her sister thank God for the lice. Well, Corrie thought her sister had surely lost her marbles now, thanking God for lice because they were terrible, such a nuisance. Her sister reminded her that the Bible instructs us to thank God for all things.
Their barracks had daily bible study but had to hide it for fear of being found by the guards. One day they overheard the guards say, "Let's not go in there, they are infested with lice". And therefore they continued their bible studies without fear of being found out. So Corrie's sister had thanked God for the lice, not knowing at the time their purpose. But even lice had a purpose (who who think?)
That makes me feel pretty small when I think of all the complaining I do-- not to say I'm accusing you guys of complaining because I know exactly how you feel. I just wanted to share that story because it makes me think.
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06-13-2002, 04:08 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: May 2001
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Re: here is a really silly question
Beaner, now that's one thing that might work. Nothing else has. I'll send DH out tonight. The problem is the deer are almost like dogs. Very tame. They just look at you when you walk outside.
Kruggie, there is nothing more rude than the neighbors dog. We got lucky with our neighbors when I mention the "present" problem to them. If I didn't have any luck with that I would probably throw it on their house or in their mailbox. (sorry mailperson) Wearing gloves of course. I'm usually not that mean but to have someone down right ignore you, would send me over the edge.
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06-13-2002, 07:10 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Slate Belt, PA
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Re: here is a really silly question
Oh, it'll work. Trust me. As long as it's soda or beer he's been drinking. Chugging a gallon of water doesn't work. It's not offensive enough to their little noses! [img]graemlins/achoo.gif[/img]
(This is going to sound gross, but my grandpa raised me as a proper farmer so I have to share the knowledge.)
If you want the effect to last longer, have him pee on a couple of old dust rags out of the way in the yard or flower beds somewhere. That way he won't have to go out and "freshen" [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] up the yard every time it rains.
Good luck!
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06-13-2002, 07:16 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
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Re: here is a really silly question
Squirrels are OK, but there's a couple of Chipmunks I like better! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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06-13-2002, 07:17 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
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Re: here is a really silly question
Squirrels are OK, but there's a couple of Chipmunks I like better! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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06-13-2002, 09:51 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 1,281
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Re: here is a really silly question
I just love it when the squirrels decide to jump out of my trash cans at me when i am taking out the garbage. It is probably pretty funny to watch me running out from behind my house with a squirrel in hot pursuit!!!
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06-13-2002, 10:10 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Cape May Court House NJ USA
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Re: here is a really silly question
I think squirrels are cute, and I love chipmunks [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] I believe their purpose is to entertain those of us who are willing to sit and watch them eat & play [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] My dad has several that actually follow him around (especially if he hasn't put out the peanuts yet [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] ) To me they are amazing creatures. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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06-13-2002, 10:29 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: here is a really silly question
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Originally posted by Beaner:
I get my DH all beered up and send him out into the yard to pee! Sounds gross, but it works great. The critters ar scared off by the male scent. (Like you couldn't smell a big, hairy, smelly hippie without him peeing in the flowerbed... [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] )
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">ROTF! And I mean ROTF! I think my wife would kill me if I peed in her garden! ROTF! Fortunatley we don't have a real critter problem - only have squirrels and the occasional chipmunk in the backyard but thankfully (knock on wood) they're not destructive! |
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06-14-2002, 12:17 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: The land of the free and the Home of the Brave!
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Re: here is a really silly question
Ah yes our friend the squirrel. I believe squirrels have several purposes, the first is that they seem to be a great source of amusement to the geriatric community, they love to feed them and watch them for hours.
The second I believe is that they make fun prey for our feline friends, and the third is that they make for awesome cartoon characters. God definatly had a plan for the squirrel.
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06-14-2002, 12:21 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
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Location: Newtown Square, PA
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Re: here is a really silly question
Kruggie,
I just knew that you would have the answer to this question! I feel ever so much better about them eating my trash now that I know they have a higher purpose. Thanks [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]
Tara
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